Hedge Funds Are Making Money From Exotic Bets

Cheese, sunflower seeds and rough rice sounds like an unappetizing mix — unless you happen to be a hedge-fund manager. A handful of computer-driven funds had a bumper 2017 by betting on the future price of such “exotic” assets. The success of this type of managed futures strategy, the industry's
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Local trainer Allan MacDonald hopes Banks' equine namesake comes up trumps on Wednesday night at City Oval when Banks runs in the $10,000 Sunraysia Daily Summer Cup at the Mildura Harness Racing Club Family Night. Banks has had a good run so far under the watch of avid Collingwood
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Lady Lucan leaves fortune to housing charity Shelter. Dowager Countess of Lucan, whose husband vanished more than 40 years ago, was found dead at home in September. An inquest ruled Lady Lucan had killed herself after wrongly self-diagnosing with Parkinson's. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock.
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The Company is engaged in business of insurance underwriting and related services. It has a 14.49 P/E ratio. The Company conducts its operations through various regulated insurance company subsidiaries, which are organized into three segments: General Insurance Group, Title Insurance Group
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Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corporation operates as a real estate investment trust in the United States. The company has market cap of $419.20 million. It primarily focuses on investing in, financing, and managing a portfolio of agency and non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities and
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IDFC Bank, one of India's two newest banks, will acquire non-bank financial firm Capital First in a share swap deal valued at about $1.5 billion as it looks to boost its retail lending activities. According to terms of the deal announced on Saturday, shareholders in Capital First will receive 139 shares of the
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Ares Management Llc decreased Pennymac Mortgage (PMT) stake by 77.48% reported in 2017Q3 SEC filing. Ares Management Llc sold 214,267 shares as Pennymac Mortgage (PMT)'s stock rose 4.55%. The Ares Management Llc holds 62,283 shares with $1.08M value, down from 276,550 last
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Tampa Bay banking veteran Katie Pemble has joined the board of directors of Axiom Bank, a Maitland-based bank that's been growing its presence in the Bay area. Pemble, who has led two of the largest banks in the area, now is president of Baldwin Pemble Advisors Inc. in St. Petersburg. She founded
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Vanguard Group Inc. raised its stake in shares of Honeywell International by 2.5% during the 2nd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 49,713,013 shares of the conglomerate's stock worth $6,626,247,000 after purchasing an additional 1,234,672 shares during the period. BlackRock Inc. grew its
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BNP Paribas aims to capitalise on the disruption of Brexit to gain market share in UK corporate and investment banking and has drawn up aggressive plans to attract business from mid-sized British companies. France's biggest bank, which has had a UK presence for 150 years, recently drew up a
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Investors sentiment decreased to 1.26 in Q3 2017. Its down 0.10, from 1.36 in 2017Q2. It worsened, as 73 investors sold AMZN shares while 549 reduced holdings. 127 funds opened positions while 657 raised stakes. 279.77 million shares or 1.91% less from 285.20 million shares in 2017Q2 were
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China Lending logo Media headlines about China Lending (NASDAQ:CLDC) have trended somewhat positive on Sunday, according to Accern. Accern identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public
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The biggest Hong Kong bank, HSBC Holdings, is starting the New Year with a new chatbot. Chatbots are computer programs that typically use text-based live chat as an interface to carry out tasks for customers on behalf of the business. Now they are emerging as an inexpensive way to introduce
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Goji, a London, UK-based specialist direct lending investment manager and platform, secured an undisclosed multi-million pound funding round. Backers included Anthemis' Venture Fund 1 (AVF1) and AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV). The company intends to use the funds to further develop its platform
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Investors Title Company is an insurance holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, Investors Title Insurance Company (ITIC) and National Investors Title Insurance Company (NITIC), is engaged in issuance of residential and commercial title insurance, Investors Title Insurance Company
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Analysts expect Oaktree Specialty Lending Corpo (NASDAQ:OCSL) to report $0.10 EPS on February, 8.They anticipate $0.06 EPS change or 37.50% from last quarter's $0.16 EPS. OCSL's profit would be $14.10 million giving it 12.48 P/E if the $0.10 EPS is correct. After having $0.08 EPS previously,
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This buyback authorization authorizes the real estate investment trust to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. The American Assets Capital Advisers holds 86,100 shares with $11.77 million value, up from 69,046 last quarter. Moore Capital Management Lp who had been
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If putting exchanged-traded funds together to make a portfolio is a bit like cooking, then Dan Egan of robo-adviser Betterment LLC is a master chef. On the fourth episode of Trillions, we get a first-hand look at how a professional builds ETF portfolios that work for different types of investors with varied
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Jane Street Group Incorporated Limited Co has 0% invested in Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (NASDAQ:HBAN) for 31,181 shares. … personal lines, life and disability, and specialty lines of insurance; and brokerage and agency services for residential and commercial title insurance, as well as
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Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg strengthened her power base as the Liberal Party agreed to join her minority coalition. The new government will be built on a “broader center-right platform,” Solberg said Sunday at a televised press conference in Moss, south of Oslo. “We are seeing a more
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